Land Rover’s Journey of Discovery

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Today we have something that is fun and (hopefully) at least a bit educational. Land Rover has a long history of choosing regions, cities, and natural landscapes as inspiration for colors. What we have done is listed all the 2012 model year colors along with some historical colors and provided a bit of background on the origins of the name (or, at least, have taken our best guess).

Back in early August, we joked that the word 'Evoque' would eventually come to mean, "to collect awards at an alarming pace." As it turns out, we were right. Since August, the 2012 Range Rover Evoque has earned an astonishing number of awards. Two of the more recent accolades come from Auto123.com and Bloomberg News.

Over the coming weeks, we will be assembling one-on-one specification comparisons of Land Rover vehicles versus some of their nearest competitors. To kick things off, we have laid out some basic specs for all current model year Land Rovers along with two chief competitors for each model. We have included the MSRP of the trim listed, engine size, horsepower, and MPG.

We are deviating from our regularly scheduled Land Rover programming today to bring you some additional background on another off-road vehicle sold by Tata Motors: the Safari DiCOR 2.2 VVT. While the Tata Safari DiCOR is certainly not in the same class as any of the Land Rover vehicles, the Safari does feature some degree of capability off the pavement. In fact, Tata markets the Safari as an "All Terrain Conqueror."

A short while back we took a look at the 2012 Range Rover Evoque's exterior colors as well as the interior color options that are available for U.S. buyers. Today, we have a couple of renderings of the Evoque wearing custom two-tone and tri-tone paint schemes along with a couple of additional photos featuring cars from Startech and Maragoni.